“All I need is my [daughter] Rinkle,” said a weeping Silchiny Kumari, the mother of the Hindu girl, renamed Syeda Faryal Bibi, after allegedly being forced to embrace Islam by her kidnappers in Mirpur Mathelo. The uncle of Rinkle, Raj Kumar, told journalists that in the Dharki area, miscreants were threatening to take out processions and kidnap another four Hindu girls if the courts gave an unfavourable decision in Rinkle’s case. The parents of Lata and Asha also made similar appeals. Challenging the claims that the girls had converted on “freewill”, Vankwani questioned the kind of freewill the Hindu girls would have exercised being surrounded by a number of armed people. However, Qadir Khan Mandokhail, the lawyer representing Sulachana, said Rinkle was forcibly taken away and converted. "When she appeared before a civil judge in Ghotki (in Sindh province) on February 25, she said she had been kidnapped at 4 am and that she wanted to go back to her family," he said. "The civil judge was scared and didn't record her statement. He sent her to police custody instead," Mandokhail said. Rinkle was committed with her previous statement to go with her family in the Supreme Court of Pakistan before Mr. Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry the Chief Justice, but she was sent to the shelter house on March 26, 2012 and to be presented before the court on April 18, 2012. This shows that there is pressure not only the Hindu girls and women but Christian girls and women as well who are forcibly converted to Islam. A few days ago a grade 8 Christian student Takveen who appeared in the nazra (recitation of Quran) in the province of Punjab had to go through religious persecution when the external examiner asked the local school teacher it is very strange that the student has not yet been converted to Islam. Pakistani minorities have to daily go through persecution. They are forcibly preached Islam through textbooks and the teachers as well. It is the time for the minorities to come out and raise their voice. The minorities’ representatives are not their voice because they are not elected by their votes. They enjoy privileges and play in the hands of the political parties as puppets which nominate them. They are playing fouls with their communities. Minister for National Harmony Akram Masih Gill, a Christian has claimed that 100 non-Muslim women, predominantly Hindu, have been forced to convert to Islam in the country in recent months. Is there anyone to answer the questions raised by the persecuted minorities of Pakistan? How come Christian and Hindu men aren’t converting, only marriageable young girls? Why are Hindu and Christian men not converting to Islam? If the Christian and Hindu girls and women are so keen to convert to Islam, why don’t they go to Islamic seminary, learn the religion and then go through with it? Why a girl is immediately married when she is converted? Why conversion from the minorities only? The answer is very simple as the Pakistani constitution safeguards only the majority but not the minorities. This is the reason that the oppressed and suppressed minority communities feel insecure in their homeland for which they have dropped their blood. If Pakistan wants to have a good name in the comity of nations then state of Pakistan will have to provide equal rights to all Pakistanis without any discrimination. We raise fingers on the other countries for the violation of the human rights but the same practice is in our own country where we are violating the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights. The Chief Justice of Supreme Court must take action and establish a commission on the minority rights. If the state of Pakistan is failed to play her role then there cannot be guarantee of equal treatment for which we raise voice. The Pakistani parliament must have immediately 21st amendment in the constitution to abolish all discriminatory laws against minorities and to award severe punishment to the culprits involved in the forced conversions.